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Questions that refer to manipulating a text layout, styling and/or management in graphic software.

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Printer says there's a white text layer behind my text that I can't see on photoshop

I created some designs for print on photoshop and when I save as a photoshop PDF, the printers are saying they see some white text behind the copy on a particular line. This is really perplexing to me ...
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How to make text fit to area text box in Illustrator CC

I am using variables in Illustrator CC. As the text comes into my design, I want the font size to change to make the text fit, without the size of the text area box changing. So, a short word that ...
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How to write Japanese in GIMP text layer?

I am using mac 10.10. My keyboard input source is set to Hiragana, but when I type into a Gimp text layer, the regular latin characters appear and not the Japanese that I expected. How do I get this ...
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Indesign: can't get rid of padding on Auto Resized text boxed

I auto resized a text box to "height only", but is still has a little white space between the bottom of the text and the bottom of the box. The inset spacing is all set to zero. Any ideas as ...
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Align text content left and right within the same layer

I am pulling a lot of data from a Word document into Sketch, and would like to know whether its possible to align parts of a text layer both left and right, without having to separate them on ...
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How to change alignment of placed ICML file?

When placing an ICML file into InDesign, it gives me a text frame which is right-aligned. The content is in English and I can't change the alignment of the frame unless I “Check out.” I would like to ...
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How to create a box around in-line text?

I am looking for a way to create this type of boxes (like "uncommon", "evocation", "magical" in the image below) around text. Mostly this text would be on a separate line,...
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How to make all text lines the same height or distance

I have a problem that actually annoyed me for quite a while in text editing software, only now I have a case where it's hard to ignore it: Maybe it's some simple general feature but I never knew how ...
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Lorem ipsum equivalent for Spanish, Polish and other languages?

I'm testing out some fonts, and I'd like to see how they look with language that use more than the basic latin alphabet, in my case Dutch, German, Spanish, Polish and Portuguese. Is there a tool (...
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Is it possible to uncurl an image of a handwritten book page?

I have a small (4x3 inch) Catholic prayer book handwritten in German gothic script. prayer book was written by a 4 Great grandfather. I plan to pass this prayer book down to younger relatives but I ...
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Text with bevelled edges that reflect light

I am trying to achieve a text effect like this using Photoshop: See how it has borders that can reflect light: How do you do those edges? How do I make the edges reflect light as per the top right ...
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(Illustrator) Warp text inside and around a ring/circle, maintaining its shape

A sketched example of what I'd like to achieve:
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How to set two text boxes to the same width in inkscape

I have two text boxes which were created by selecting the text tool, and dragging out a rectangle of approximately the right size. Now I would like to make sure they are the same width. If I select ...
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Distribute lists (equally) separated by a character

I would like to add a paragraph to my document containing names separated by bullet points. Since the names are in different lengths the distribution is not balanced on every line. When I set the text ...
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Can you please help identify these fonts? I need to find them for a project

[![enter image description here][2]][2] What font is used in these graphics? I tried putting them through different font identifiers but I couldn't find it. probably wasn't in their catalogue. One of ...
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Inkscape - how to change double lines font inside the rectangle box?

I am new to inkscape. I'm primarily using it for make flow diagrams. I've put landscape orientation of the page. When I add text inside rectangles created they come to be of double lines. I've font ...
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SVG animate accordion two letter word into longer word?

Using a plain-text editor, preferably, or Inkscape, are there any good tutorials on taking two letters and inserting more letters between them, and animating it so that the two letters expand outward ...
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Is there a single text color that is acceptable on both dark and light background?

Is there a single text color that, when used on either dark or light background, produces a readable (or at least tolerable) output? If it makes it easier, constraints can be put on the hue, ...
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How do people perceive text with i and j without dots?

I dislike dots above i and j, so I consider typesetting texts without the dots. Probably, it would be done with a glyph substitution described here. What impression would that make on people reading ...
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Can someone indentify this font, please?

So, I've been looking this font everywhere on the internet as I can, like WhatTheFont, Font Finder, Google Lens, but I can't find anything, not even close to it. Can someone please indentify it? It's ...
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How one can make an svg graphic with LaTeX text so that the text remains selectable?

I read a paper on robotics, it had some nice pictures with the schematic representation of an articulated robot. The special thing about it was that the forces and some other things are selectable on ...
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InDesign CC: Text won't go to top of frame (checked all other issues)

I'm dealing with an issue where, when adjusting an existing text box (i.e. font and leading resizing), the text will not sit at the top of the frame where it was before. I've chased the following ...
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Inkscape for cartography: fill the background of a text

I want to produce a geographic map with Inkscape. I have cities with names. I mean I have dozens of city names. I want to fill the background of cities names with a semi transparent background so that ...
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Illustrator text fill transparent over image effect

I'm trying to recreate an effect I've seen a few times where some text is placed over a background image, and the fill opacity over the background image is transparent but the fill of the rest of the ...
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Evenly spaced text in Photoshop

I'm trying to add text to my document that is evenly spaced, like in the example on the right. The closest I've been able to get it is like the image on the left, but as you can see they don't quite ...
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How to achieve this text skew effect?

I am trying to achieve a specific text skew effect (see pictures below). I am using Affinity Designer 2. I tried following methods: Warp Group - Perspective (doesn't work because the font weight of ...
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Using Photoshop - how do I make text "wrap" (break) around an image like in the images linked in this post?

Example 1: Example 2: Is there a simple and semi-automatic way to do this? I know I can do it manually, but there ought to be some way to make the text automatically break when it reaches some sort ...
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context aware fill, and generative fill problem while removing text from image in photoshop

I'm having trouble figuring out the cause of a (context-aware fill / generative fill) problem. I have images with text in them. I want to remove the text. This is the procedure I want to do to make ...
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Remove the round brackets and keep the text?

I have more than 1000 titles with round brackets. All have a paragraph style. I'm trying to keep the title\text but removing the brackets. I managed to find them in the GREP, but I could not find what ...
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Typographic and formatting conventions for plain text

Are there any typographic or formatting conventions for making plain text (a simple *.txt file in ASCII or UTF-8) more readable? Specific details that I'm considering: when to use hard line breaks ...
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How to change color of multiple text objects at once

I'm using GIMP and I have a lot of text object in a project that must have the same color. Every time I want to change this color I have to select the texts one by one and change it. Is there a way to ...
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Inkscape Issues Importing PDF Text: Case and 'fi' Rendering

I am trying to make minor edits to an existing PDF that I have imported into Inkscape, but am having issues with the rendering of the text from the PDF. Letters that are combined in certain, such as '...
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How can I add bullet points in xd?

I am trying to add bullet points in my design using Adobe XD but this function not available in xd, Although I know some of trick to do it By clicking ALT + 0149 Copying and pasting text already ...
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How can I justify text in Inkscape?

I have copied some text from Wikipedia, went to Inkscape, and pressed Ctrl+V. So, the workspace looks like the following: Now, I want to take the text inside the workspace and then want to justify ...
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Text wrapping fill-last-line-first

I have a peculiar design for a web page that I have to implement from an already made design, and some of the text wrappings are filled bottom-up (in my case it's for bottom-left aligned thin text ...
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Convert text to paragraph text in Illustrator

Is there any quick way to convert text created at point (automatically resizable boundaries) to a area (paragraph) text (with fixed boundaries) in Illustrator CS3?
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How to apply alternating color fills to a text in Illustrator?

I'm trying to follow along an Illustrator tutorial on how to personalize a label. In it, the brand's name uses two colors that are applied alternately to each letter. See below image: The text "...
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InDesign - Replace text field from file

I'm trying to make a document where on each page there is some text (e.g. name) that is updated based on a text file that contains the list of the desired text for each page. (Imagine a document with ...
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Reduce "boldness" of text-converted shape

As a newbie to Illustrator, I'm struggling to find a way to reduce the "boldness" of the shape converted from text (see image). Is there a way to reduce the line thickness of this shape?
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GIMP: Text changes when editing it

I have an old .xcf file that contains several text layers. When I created the file, I edited and changed the text multiple times without issue. Now, several months later, on a new OS and new version ...
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How to underline text in Inkscape

Using Inkscape's latest official release, I created a text element, and would like to underline its text (or part of it). How to do that? I don't see any option to underline.
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Moving at least two words to the next line in paragraph

I hate it when the paragraph ends with one word on the the last line. It's just not right for it to hang there by itself like that. Is there a way to force the last line to have at least 2 words?
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Trying to find balance in uneven text blocks

I'm designing a business card for my small business. The text at the bottom of the card is throwing me off. I'm separating the employee's name and title from their contact information, to "square ...
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Shear Text Transformation in Inkscape

Looking for a way to write text along an angle in Inkscape while keeping the vertical alignment straight. Illustrator has a "shear" transformation available this, but is anyone aware of an ...
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Reverse Order of Text Elements in Figma

I’m wondering if it’s possible to reverse the order of text elements in Figma. I.e. what if I wanted to have the largest ‘Typography’ text to appear on top and the smallest ‘Typography’ text to appear ...
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Why does my text made in Inkscape not display elsewhere?

I made quite some basic icons in Inkscape, but when displaying the SVGs in other tools (browser or basic Linux image viewer), The text parts are not displayed at all. How to get it to show up ...
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Illustrator: Auto-sized Text box with a rectangle border (no fill)?

My question is related to this one Illustrator: Auto-sized Text box with shaded background? What I want is an auto-sized Text box with a black rectangle border. It should look like this: Is it ...
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Illustrator: Auto-sized Text box with shaded background?

I frequently create labels that follow the same format: white text on a 75% opaque black background, with 10px of margin around the text. Currently, I have to manually build these labels, which takes ...
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How do I use the offset path function to create ligatures with even white space where they overlap like this? [duplicate]

The tutorial I saw has he guy use the expand feature then use the offset path feature and then he uses a tool to remove the expanded areas and create this effect. I have been trying to figure it our ...
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After Effects: How to make text changes not affect width?

Using After Effects, I am trying to do a countdown of 5 minutes with a setup like this: 5m 00s, 4m 59s, 4m 58s... I have the countdown already set up with Slider Control. However, I'm trying to use a ...

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